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Emma B. Ward Elementary came in first place as a school in the Governor’s Cup competition on March 2 with Saffell Street following in second place, Mercer County Intermediate in third, and Robert B. Turner in fourth place.
The Future Problem Solvers and Quick Recall team will both move to the region, along with 12 written assessment winners, according to a press release from Ward.
Local student results from the Governor’s Cup competition were:

The Robert B. Turner Elementary choir performed at the Kentucky School Boards Association conference at the Galt House in Louisville on Feb. 23.
Music teacher and director Monica Drury said she had sent in an application to sing back in November, and the choir was accepted in December.
The songs the choir sang include “It’s Always a Good Time” as performed by Owl City and Carley Raye Jepsen and “It’s all About Music” by Ethan Bortnick.

Second graders in Mrs. Barnes’, Drury’s, Harley’s, and Wilder’s rooms at Saffell Street Elementary recently had a writer’s celebration. All second graders researched and wrote “All About Books,” and they also wrote “How To Booklets.” Each child illustrated his or her books and booklets as well, and invited the entire school and family members to the celebration.

For one Saturday, 14-year-old Jeremiah Andrade is a general contractor, not just a Boy Scout.
“We’re going to try to get it all done today, we’ll go until five,” Andrade said early Saturday morning, explaining the day’s work schedule briefly before excusing himself to speak with a volunteer.
Andrade, who raised about $1,100 to fund his Eagle Scout project, said he’s never built a greenhouse or a tool shed before.
But three years ago, he’d never been a Boy Scout, either.

The intersection at Three Corners is an accident waiting to happen.
No recent injury collisions have occurred where Hammond Road, Ninevah Road and Highway 326 meet, but they will, Magistrate David Montgomery said.
Change at the Three Corners will happen when someone gets killed in the intersection, he said.
“The way I’m looking at that, [the Transportation Cabinet’s] going to have to wait until a really bad accident happens before they’ll do anything, and I don’t agree with that,” the 5th District magistrate said.

Freshman Congressman Andy Barr (R-Lexington) pulled no punches in discussing the federal spending cuts known as the sequester and other national topics following his visit here last week to tour the public school system.
Barr railed against the sequester, a deal struck between Democrats and Republicans two years ago that went into effect March 1 and chopped a reported $85 billion in federal spending.
He also weighed in on entitlement reform, gun control and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul’s now famous filibuster of President Obama’s nominee to lead the CIA.

The annual Mount Eden Ruritan Club Fish Fry will be held Friday, March 29 at 5 p.m. at the Mount Eden Ruritan Grounds
Tickets are $10 and the meal includes fish, slaw, baked beans, potato wedges, dessert and drink.

Little Prince/Princess Sale set at Turner
A semi-annual sale to raise funds for children’s charities is scheduled for March 16 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Turner Elementary School.

I probably ask more questions than I get answers.
Because I’m sympathetic to those who want answers, I’m fairly good at answering questions.
Except for one.
“Do you like being a newspaper reporter?”
Pause.
Sometimes I really need to think about that one.
Not that I dislike my job. I definitely don’t.
But it feels wrong to talk about my job in a manner of liking.
Liking is something you do on Facebook photos.
I like eggplant lasagna.

Someone could have knocked me over with birdshot from 190 yards away last week when I learned that the trial is off for the man charged with hunting drunk and shooting Rex Burkhead.
Just days before the trial against David Gaines was to begin, misdemeanor charges were ratcheted up to felonies after the case was presented to the grand jury.